#they shoot horses dont they

[haveyouseenthismovie-poll]

[antigoneikk]

a single still from each of my favorite movies of all time

[shirecorn]

Tumblr keeps popping up to sell me ad free dashboard. But what it doesn't understand is that me and the ads have a sort of symbiosis at this point.

The guys from the fake gameplay trailers for a predatory mobile app are my blorbos

[art--harridan]

[Image description: A digital drawing based on the film They Shoot Horses, Don't They?. In the centre, there's a disco ball, with light blue and grey highlights and also red squares. It is not completely rendered, with the desaturated marigold yellow of the background visible behind it, albeit surrounded by a grey aura. Surrounding this ball, although mostly above it and tapering off as it goes downward, there is a mass of elements from the film. It is chiefly comprised of hands, arms, legs and feet. They are either tightly worn together - such as the hands which grasp tight to themselves or others - or they hang limply, such as the legs at the bottom of the mass which are crowded by the least amount of details. These legs hang weightlessly. There's also close-ups of faces and eyes, although the expressions have no clear logic or connection. This mass is drawn with thin, grey lines. It is indiscernable where certain elements end and the others begin. The bottom left corner of the piece is left empty of these drawings, with only a small red box that has the number "67" in it, the text in a light grey.]

Inktober - Day 6 (Trek)

Film - They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (Sydney Pollack, 1969)

[im-a-goat-in-disguise]

I see my country is having a normal one today

[vastiitas]

merry christmas, ur local crate with a bowtop on it is kicked violently open from the side and there is a snarling man with a cowboy hat belligerently hauling himself out with a gun in his hand

[sugarand-everythingnice]

Playing rdr2 minding my own business trying to have Arthur take care of and bond with his horses while running from O'Driscolls and bears

[lusalemaart]

Like a couple of weeks ago there was a Drawfee video where they put their names into a Pokedex entry generator, and I decided to do it with my name.

[lo-carb]

I'm tired y'all. Not only are the neighbors dogs back again harassing my horse, they've actively been trying to get into our trash cans, and went ballistic at me when I went outside to give pony breakfast. It was windy the other day, so not long after we drove into town to run errands it blew the lids off of our trash bins. They must have let their dogs out during that time and they graciously helped themselves to our trash. We know it was their dogs since we spotted them sprinting off our property as we arrived back home. Thankfully they must not have been at it long as there wasn't too big of a mess, but obviously the trash was bit into and scattered. I can tell the original dog that was coming across the fence to harass the horse now has some type of bulky shock collar on, not sure what good that's doing, but he's brought his friend over to join in now. And if I know anything about the multiple times I've witnessed game dogs mauling and harassing farm animals that I've raised, once you have more than one dog they seem to feed off of each other much more, pack mentality. Neighbors have avoided having to talk to me too, so I've been discussing it with one of their family members that I work with, something seems to be getting said to them but just.... Ughhhh

[bittersweet-mojo]

polycule showed up in thronebreaker. im glad it was just as weird for meve as it was for them.

[poobit]

i have many thoughts on how Mouthwashing handles the themes of abuse and the symbolism around it especially as a survivor ... im not gnna hold back so -

first of all i think since its clear the point Jimmy is dismissive of Anya´s personhood and his perception is warped towards what he does as a Captain rather than what he does as a man, it makes sense she doesnt get her own labyrinth or such , i cant argue around that because its realistic he´s so male focused he cant even bother to truly think about what he did to her, i would love it if Wrong Organ decides to do a side story vignette of her own perspective and view in the future if the game proves its successful enough for side content like that.

Assault is something usually not handled with subtlety in games, i think what struck me the most was how real the dialogue of her coping and suicidal ideations and how Curly responded to it felt , the dancing around the subject, the deflection, the "whats next" of the ever impending consequence of pregnancy, how Anya pleads for help from the person she trusts but nonetheless a man unequipped and too emotionally attached to the abuser to be able to confront him, its so real, Curly´s lack of initiative is something Jimmy fully takes advantage of the moment things dont go his way, he turns everyone against him even as a helpless body on a bed because he needed to be in control of the situation, thats what abusers do.

A more sensationalistic game would have easily played Anya´s helplessness and assault for shock for sure, because it would be easy, she is the archetypical victim trope, shes modeled in Wendy Torrance likeness from The Shining, shes meek and unsure of herself and Jimmy shoots her down from the very beginning to make her feel unqualified and cornered, but the furthest the games goes is making Jimmy terror towards the pregnancy and the baby as a boogeyman that crawls and tramples over him. No sights of bleeding legs or her crying or screaming and much less present objectification of her body (which is something that i always think the horror genre has such a struggle not grabbing onto, sexuality is mostly always played up in assault stories especially if the victim is an adult woman), she remains a fully clothed figure and maintains the agency to her own demise, away from Jimmy and beside Curly, which is tragic and obviously still a symptom of horror´s proclivity to back female characters into corners of self inflicted punishment, but the alternative would have been that sooner or later, Jimmy would have killed her.

Its clear to me that the game used Curly´s state as a way to put a barrier between Jimmy and Anya, we dont objectify Anya, but we objectify Curly, Anya doesnt just feel pained and unable to handle Curly´s medication because shes in a sensitive state, her comments about his noises and such draws a line between her trauma and her perception of things as Her fault, she cant handle hearing his struggles and cries trying to swallow a pill because it reminds her of her own helplessness, so she leaves the task to Jimmy, someone who has no qualms in forcing someone down, the emphasis of every treatment as a repetitive process and the sound design is all very poignant and for me, a great way to handle assault as a metaphor, Curly did not consent to being in this position, it is very much still Jimmy´s fault and the fact that Jimmy is basically keeping him alive against his will even to the last moment of the game says everything, Jimmy doesnt love Curly the same way he doesnt love Anya.

The horses are not lost on me, i think horses as animals are often seen as "viril" symbols, strong and often volatile, they can be often hard to mount but when one does the rider and animal are seen as this one all powerful entity, like centaurs, which also carry symbolism of assaulters mind you, so while maybe not intentional on the dev´s part i think it still points to the Horse as a symbol still important in the game, the only spoken audio lines of dialog come from the Pony Express mascot Polle itself, and they are the first to actually confront Jimmy´s self centered line of thought and over-focusing on Curly, if the Tulpar is akin to a beast of a burden then Jimmy beat the dead horse way long ago.

All in this to say that Mouthwashing was a really good experience and i really hope the dev team is interested on expanding a bit more on it because i trust their vision.

[sunshineisellipsoid]

not pictured: me going 'oh shit OH SHIT' loud enough to wake my dad up whos asleep on the couch next to me

so it turns out that you can kill the floor masters they just also keep killing you

it only takes like 5ish bomb arrows with a soldiers bow if you let them group but id died too many times to be that patient

[hinderr]

love putting myself in impossible situations

[iris-of-the-lambs]

if i dont meet my dnd party's quarterly milf quota they're just going to take me out back and shoot me like a lame horse

[memorycycle]

if i caught the worlds biggest fish i wouldnt tell anyone. i wouldnt even take a picture. id keep my phone in my pocket and enjoy the night out and just look at its beautiful eyes and eyebrows and ill pay for the meal and when we get out of the restaurant, i open the passenger door to my real horse as she steps in and i step in and the horse gallops off but then we hit a stop light, and some other guy pulls up next to us in a bigger horse starts revving his engine at us, and my fish is like babe dont, but im not listening and when the light turns we both peel out, its close as fuck but he hits a patch of road with low traction and his horse spins out and breaks its leg and we both watch in the rearview mirror as the guy has to get out and shoot it with a rifle and we dont talk for the rest of the night and when i wake up the next morning shes not in bed next to me and the windows open with a rope fashioned from bedsheets trailing out of it, and ill be like damn i wish i got a picture

[9-sheep-magdi]

I could be wrong, but wasnt the "main source" of the horse meat some shady rescues?

I remember a few reports about people selling their old horses to a rescue for one (1) symbolic €. Then the horses suddenly disappeared (shipped to Italy to be processed).

Thats also why medication would have been found, because horses meant for slaughter are medicated different than say a sport horse.

remember that time there was a "scare" that some beef products contained horse meat? and instead of positing it as an issue of contamination and mislabeled foods (very real issue that could endanger lives), people freaked out about "how could you dare eat horses!?" (fake issue that most people couldn't handle without making asses of themselves)